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2011 Canadian Weblogs Award Nominees

The 2011 Canadian Weblog Award Nominees have been listed. I have been nominated for the best political blog and the lifetime achievement award. Among Saskatoon bloggers, I see that Dave Hutton’s City Hall Notebook and Sean Shaw’s Municipal Matters blogs have been nominated in a couple of categories as well. I looked through the list [...]

Andrew Jones makes me feel really old

Nov 4th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Andrew looks back a decade at some of the original theological bloggers and finds out what we are up to. It’s funny to think I am indirectly responsible for three of the people on that list.

Turning 10

Jun 28th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Ten years ago today I published my first post on this site. I wasn’t sure if this blogging thing was going to last but since then I have posted more then 11,000 times to the site and the traffic has grown quite a bit. There hasn’t been many changes to the site. It was first [...]

The StarPhoenix Community Bloggers

Mar 8th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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The StarPhoenix has been a part of my life since we moved to Saskatoon in 1984 from Calgary. In fact I think it was a big reason why my mom chose Saskatoon over Moose Jaw. She literally dreaded the idea of not having a big city paper. It was there for me everyday growing up [...]

A Year In Review

Feb 15th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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After reading Sean Shaw’s review of 2010 for his blog, I started to look at the stats and demographics of jordoncooper.com. This is what I discovered. The bulk of my visitors are from the United States and then Canada followed the by U.K. The site used to be blocked in China but I see the [...]

My 2011 Life List

Dec 31st, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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instead of a New Years Resolution, here is my list of things I want to get done in 2011. The personal goals first Take a photo each day of 2011 and post it to my Project 365 set on Flickr. I’ll also post some to the Project 365 group. This is designed to force me [...]

Canadian Weblog Award Finalist: Lifetime Achievement

Dec 1st, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Someone nominated jordoncooper.com for a Canadian Weblog Award for Lifetime Achievement. I am not sure who did but thanks. I have won a couple of CWA’s before and it’s fun to be nominated again. You can find out more information (and a bunch of great weblogs) at www.canadianweblogawards.com

Christmas Gift Ideas for your Husband / Father / Boyfriends (all of the men in your life) | 2010 Edition | Guest Post

Nov 22nd, 2010

by Wendy.

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It’s Wendy and I keep telling Jordon that he needs to stop leaving the password for his blog login laying around and he never listens to me. As he said, “Bill Clinton lost the nuclear launch codes and nothing bad happened.” Well what happened is that I am posting a gift guide for what to [...]

Coming up this week…

Sep 26th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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It was a productive weekend and I was able to do a fair amount of both reading and writing. I will be rolling out my extended series on the inner city of Saskatoon this week (Monday night as well as on Wednesday and Thursday mornings) as well as three new episodes of the series next [...]

Thanks!

Sep 25th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Andrew Jones has some nice things to say about my blog which I appreciate. Back when I started this blog, there was Rudy Carassco, Andrew, AKMA, and myself blogging about theology and faith issues. I’ve been doing this for so long, I recently had to install the Touch of Grey hair coloring plugin for my [...]

I Write Like…

Aug 18th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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I write likeDavid Foster Wallace I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Your Right to Comment Ends at My Front Door

Jun 20th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Derek Powazek has a great post on blogging and comments. I turned off comments in the last redesign of powazek.com because I needed a place online that was just for me. With comments on, when I sat down to write, I’d preemptively hear the comments I’d inevitably get. It made writing a chore, and eventually [...]

Pro Blogger I am Not

Feb 21st, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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I was asked about the advertising I have on some of our sites the other day. I sent most of this via e-mail but after I was asked about this again, I thought I would post it here. I have never thought advertising was that big of a money maker. If you have time, look [...]

The Christian Book Whore

Feb 20th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Bill picks up on my post about bloggers whoring themselves out to the publishers for free books and other products. First of all, the price is quite small, EA once sent my brother to San Francisco for the launch of Battlefield 2 and game home with a bag full of schwag and more free games [...]

Why Jordon Cooper Outfitters?

Jan 1st, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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A couple of you have asked what my plan is for Jordon Cooper Outfitters as it hasn’t made a lot of sense for some of you as to why I have done it and why I am only posting once a day. Here is the short answer. I am posting once a day because it [...]